5 ways to pimp your terminal in linux

Posted on March 16th, 2008 in Commandline Tools, Tweaks by admin

Most people tend to think of the terminal as boring. But here I will list a number of choices you can pick to snaz it up a bit. The following applications can increase the usability and the speed in which you use a terminal, from drop down screens, syntax highlighting, or having multiple terminals in one window.

Enhance your terminal with fish

Posted on March 12th, 2008 in Basics, Commandline Tools by admin

fish is a user friendly command line shell for UNIX-like operating systems such as Linux. fish supports syntax highlighting and generally makes reading a terminal, as well as text documents, much easier. I’ve included a screenshot example, but you can see the rest here.

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